World Association for Community Empowerment Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134182791
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Staten Island, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9294824264
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,400
- Expenses
- $46,672
- Assets
- $3,969
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Walters James Weah (President/CEO)
People named in this filing
- Walters James Weah (President/CEO)
- Albert Freeman Wilson (Treasurer)
- ALEX FAKIH (Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
World Association for Community Empowerment is a volunteer-driven tax-exempt organization founded in 2000 to help empower low-income and immigrant communities and families to become self-sufficient through the provision of comprehensive array of services that install hope, foster understanding, self-respect, support, and self-love.
What it reported doing in 2020
The organization provided a One Stop Social Services program for residents in the Arlington community of Staten Island, NY. Services include weekly food distribution to individuals 55 and older, after school tutorial/home work help, job readiness training and placement, case management services, adult and computer literacy, housing assistance and Clothing and toys distribution.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.7%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 51.4%; rating input score 51
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.7% of revenue deployed · 51.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.